Crappy Optimization

[DjShIzz]

So i have been playing this game for a while now, and it has run at a perfect 60FPS seeing how i only have a Laptop and thats the max i can get. Anyhow, i was playing earlier today and it was still running perfectly smooth. But now i tried loading into the game like any other time and now its running like ♥♥♥♥! All i can get is a max 18FPS and i havnt changed anyhting at all!!

Any Advice Fella's?
I have a Brand spanking new Alienware 17 8GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 765M with 2GB GDDR5 and Windows 8.

I know for sure i should have absolutley no problem!!!

[xPonzo]

Laptops your problem, My old laptop could play most games medium/low (not as good as yours :P) but after about 6 months of buying, games would suddenly lag ALOT, would get stutter in everygame and low fps, sound like what your getting. Anyway it turned out my GPU was damaged, no idea how, so i built myself a pc :) But sound like your problem could be with the gpu or maybe some settings you've got turned on?

[youb]

i5-2430m
gt 540m 2gb ddr3
average 15-20 fps during action :/
30 in corridor, only me

[MrMuffinz]

I agree, your laptop's probably burning up mate.

If it's already lagging and slow, then you are too late to fix it and probably wont be able to play graphical games like this on your laptop again.

I would look at getting a real Desktop and a Dedicated Graphics Card.

If you would like to continue playing smaller games (low graphical quality games like Half-Life and Minecraft are fine) then I would lower your playtime, play in a cool environment, and put your laptop on a laptop stand that gives circulation to the bottom of your laptop.

I experienced the same thing 2 years ago, except my Laptop absolutely blew ♥♥♥♥.
When it finally gave it's last breath I went to best buy, bought a cheap but medium-grade stock PC and a Graphics card, and have been playing it ever since.

Of course as a result of buying a Stock PC, I have a Motherboard that can only accept FM1 CPU's, so right now my CPU sucks and my Graphics card is good. My CPU is therefore bottlenecking it.

Wait, what was I talking about again?
*off topic*

[DjShIzz]

Buddy i understand the laptop thing, but i run battlefield 4 no problem at 60 fps so i think it could be the game........ any advice for that?

[DjShIzz]

NS2 is the only game with this problem sorry let me rephrase that. Every single game i have runs perfect except for NS2 now, its looking like a game problem, that game has always had optimization problems from the get-go My $3500 brand new laptop thats not even 4 months old guys!! And its alienware no way in hell its my laptop. yea, if this happened to other games then yea i would think that too. but thats not the case.

[DjShIzz]

i dont understand why everyone hates laptops. i have a laptop that runs better than a lot of Desktops out there!

[DjShIzz]

and like i said^^^^ it was running perfect hours before it wasnt sooo......

[DjShIzz]

And by the way guys sorry. i forgot to re-post my game is running perfect again as of yesterday shortly after this happened. which again confirmed it was a GAME issue

[Apocalypse]

DjShIzz a écrit :

And by the way guys sorry. i forgot to re-post my game is running perfect again as of yesterday shortly after this happened. which again confirmed it was a GAME issue

Totally confirmed it. Because yesterday my game run total crap, and today with no patch, nothing changed and everything runs smooth, so it must be the game. *rolleyes*

Seriously?
Could have been as well a cooling issue with your laptop, maybe one of its coolers did not run well for some time. but lost some of the dirt in it now. Or it was an os issue, or some driver issue, or some mod, or … totally confirmed on everything ;-)

BTW your brand new $3500 laptop is most likely a fantastic $2000 laptop with an alienware case. For $3500 you can have a saeger with dual 780m gpus already.
In other words, that alienware is less powerful as a 5 year old high-end desktop system ;-)
That 765m is slower than most $100 desktop gpus these days.

But its nice to see that your game runs perfect again.

[DjShIzz]

Apocalypse a écrit :

DjShIzz a écrit :

And by the way guys sorry. i forgot to re-post my game is running perfect again as of yesterday shortly after this happened. which again confirmed it was a GAME issue

Totally confirmed it. Because yesterday my game run total crap, and today with no patch, nothing changed and everything runs smooth, so it must be the game. *rolleyes*

Seriously?
Could have been as well a cooling issue with your laptop, maybe one of its coolers did not run well for some time. but lost some of the dirt in it now. Or it was an os issue, or some driver issue, or some mod, or … totally confirmed on everything ;-)

BTW your brand new $3500 laptop is most likely a fantastic $2000 laptop with an alienware case. For $3500 you can have a saeger with dual 780m gpus already.
In other words, that alienware is less powerful as a 5 year old high-end desktop system ;-)
That 765m is slower than most $100 desktop gpus these days.

But its nice to see that your game runs perfect again.

Just another hater! bahahahaha. look man im not looking to start any ♥♥♥♥ like you have obviously. You think i dont know that Desktop's are a lot better? of course i do, because you can obviously put more in them. Also i am saying that this new laptop of mine has had no problems with games other than having Win 8 OS which sometimes Isnt compatible of course.

There are always Variables in everything!!! So you dont think that maybe the game itself and its server base may have had an issue with it for a short time??? Possibly! Could my Laptop have a slight temparary issue with is software or fan? sure!!! But when i can play a top of the line game like Battlefield 4 with lo lag directly after i have this problem, then re-lauch NS2 and still have a problem.

That my friend. sounds like a game problem to me! And before you think your better than people like me with this sort of thing, you got problems bro!! That being said, I am still going to be an adult about this sort of thing because i AM one, and ask you what you may think the problem still could be and would you have any advice!!

Seeing how our lord blessed you with such intent on Knowledge and problems. ;)

[DjShIzz]

Never said it was the best Laptop. but its been Mainly just fine with my selection of games. and plus, because i work hard, i have no problem supporting a brand i like for ♥♥♥♥ that i want.

[Hooter]

So I've been playing NS2 every day this week and I haven't noticed any significant slowdown. I'm playing on a Lenovo Y500. So I would suggest checking to see if your drivers are up to date. If you recently updated a driver try reading the release notes. Sometimes specific games have issues with specific games. Did you have an anti-virus scan running in the background? Were you downloading something? If it happens again those might be some things to check.

[Traffic Conez]

Lol @ laptops

Anyway, NS2 is generally not very well optimised and suffers from really bad FPS dropout. I used to experience it before I built my own PC and now it runs smoothly. Perhaps try and run the game on different settings, especially try OpenGL vs Direct X.

Good luck, suks when you can't play NS2 :/

[angelous]

Well, laptops are portable, end of story, if you move a lot, and/or want to keep mobile, and you have the cash, why not buy a gaming laptop, I mean, they ARE gaming laptops. If I could aford it I would buy one (but I have to settle to having a mediocre laptop on the go... 20-30fps midgame, probalby 15 late game with tons of action)

[bob]

Desktop here and I have similar problems, anywhere from 60 fps at ultra graphics to 15 with the lowest.